Tabulophyllum is an
extinctgenus of
horn coral belonging to the order
Stariidae and family
Kyphophyllidae.[1] Specimens have been found in
Devonian beds in Australia[2] North America,[3] and most other major areas of Devonian outcrops. The genus was highly adaptable to a variety of substrates, including muddy, sandy, and firm substrates.[4] The genus had a low-
magnesiumcalcite skeleton and may have flourished in times of "calcite seas".[5] There is evidence from fossil reefs in the
Onate Formation of
New Mexico, US that the genus favored the receptaculitid Sphaerospongia as a firm substrate for growth.[6]
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abZhen, Yong-Yi (January 1995). "Late Emsian rugose corals of the Mount Podge area, Burdekin Basin, north Queensland". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 19 (3): 193–234.
doi:
10.1080/03115519508619506.
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abcdeSorauf, J. E. (1998). "Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 113 (355): 1–159.
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abSorauf, James E. (January 1987). "The rugose coral Tabulophyllum traversensis from the Oñate Formation (Middle Devonian) of the Mud Springs Mountains, New Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 61 (1): 14–20.
Bibcode:
1987JPal...61...14S.
doi:
10.1017/S0022336000028158.
S2CID131923020.